Penn. School Shooter Arrested Saturday

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Penn. School Shooter Arrested Saturday

CNN — A juvenile suspect wanted in a Philadelphia high school shooting that injured two students turned himself in Saturday, police said.

The suspect, accompanied by his lawyer, was taken into custody about 1 p.m. ET, police said. The charges against him include two counts of aggravated assault.

The shooting occurred about 3:30 p.m. Friday in the gym at Delaware Valley Charter High School.

Detective Don Suchinsky said Saturday that a second male held for questioning was released to his mother. Another juvenile was questioned and released Friday.

The shooter was in the school gym with seven other students, city police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. Some were playing basketball and others standing in a corner when he pulled a gun and fired.

The victims were an 18-year-old female and 17-year-old male, police said. She was struck in the rear of the left arm, with the bullet perforating her bicep and striking the boy in the shoulder. They were taken to a local hospital, police said, and their wounds are not life-threatening.

The incident was at least the second shooting at or near a school this week in the Olney neighborhood.

Lockdown, search

The school went into lockdown as law enforcement officers searched students and let them out of the school, said police Lt. John Stanford. They determined that it wasn’t an active shooter incident.

The shooter had left the scene.

Not long after the lockdown, Philadelphia police posted a message on Twitter, saying they had a suspect in custody. They later released the 15-year-old male, who was “completely cleared by investigators,” Stanford said.

On Saturday, police said school security officials provided inaccurate information about the teen who was cleared and released.

What exactly happened in the gym remains unclear.

“We don’t know the motives,” Ramsey said, “don’t know if it was an accident, don’t know if it was intentional.”